Pinhole Reflection

1. To understand and demonstrate pinhole photography and how it works;

2. To become familiar with darkroom processes and procedures.

The pinhole camera was really fun and interesting to use and learn about. We first started by getting a special piece of paper that had emulsion on one side. We bent it a little and put it into a can that was painted all black on the inside, with a single tiny 'pinhole' in the middle of the cylinder on the side. This let in a tiny bit of sunlight onto the emulsion.  We positioned the camera facing away from the sunlight and got in frame. My group posed for about 45 seconds, but some groups went longer depending on the position and sunlight at the time. We then took the paper out and went to develop it in the dark room. We made sure to keep both doors shut and then started developing it. First, we put the photo emulsion/shiny side down in the developer for 45 seconds, then moved it to the stopper/water for one minute. After we moved it to the fixer for 45 seconds we were able to check it in the room light. Right after we checked, however, it went back in for another 3 minutes and 15 seconds for a total of 4 minutes. Finally, it was at the final stage. We put it in the bin of water to rinse for 5 minutes, making sure there was running water to keep the bin moving.  The class after that, we took the negative print we made and decided to make it positive. We got another piece of blank film and placed it flat, emulsion side up. We then put the negative print on top of it and used the machine to shine a light through it, (we knew how long to shine the light because of the test strips we did earlier). After this, we repeated the process of developing the negative print but just did it to the now positive print.